ROBOT VISIONS ( uncorrected proof)

ISAAC ASIMOV

ISBN 10: 0451450000 / ISBN 13: 9780451450005

Published by roc, us, 1990

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uncorrected proof sss08/22/19.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ROBOT VISIONS ( uncorrected proof)
• Publisher: roc, us
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451450000
• ISBN 13: 9780451450005
• Binding: Original wraps
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: nf
• Seller catalogs:
  • ASIMOV

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Synopsis

Spanning Asimov's fifty-year career, this collection of eighteen stories and essays offers a visionary study of humankind's future relationship with robots, including both classic and original pieces, all based on Asimov's three laws of robotics

Reviews

NAL launches its new SF imprint, ROC, with a collection of 18 of Asimov's ( Foundation ) robot stories. The earliest tales here, written from 1940 to 1960, remain among the most-loved in the field, the best being "Little Lost Robot," about a robot who obeys an order to "get lost." "The Bicentennial Man" (1976) about one robot's desires and efforts to be first free, then equal, is the quintessential robot-as-man's-mirror story. The book concludes with brief essays offering companionable commentary on the history of robots in fiction, the Frankenstein complex, the origin of Asimov's famous Three Laws and the author's own surprise at the emergence of robots during his lifetime.
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